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“If invention is a pebble tossed in the pond, innovation is the rippling effect that pebble causes. Someone has to toss the pebble. That’s the inventor. Someone has to recognize the ripple will eventually become a wave. That’s the entrepreneur.” — Tom Grasty, PBS Idea Lab

STEMIE K-12 Invention Curriculum

Coming in March 2018…

STEMIE’s K-12 Invention Curriculum. It’s FREE!

The STEMIE Invention Convention Curriculum is divided into four grade ranges: K-2; 3-5; 6-8 and 9-12. It follows the 7 steps of the Invention Process: Identifying, Understanding, Ideating, Designing, Building, Testing, and Communicating. The curriculum follows the P(3) methodology authored by the PAST Foundation, ensuring that every lesson is designed for transdisciplinary problem-based learning. Each lesson includes an identified Problem and Project with an end Product (3 P’s).

The STEMIE curriculum is open access, so EVERY student K-12 may have access to it. “Open Access” means that while STEMIE does not charge for the curriculum, we do vet all the curriculum and author new pieces with curriculum experts regularly to ensure the content is aligned with Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards.

It is STEMIE’s belief that while not all Inventors are Entrepreneurs and not all Entrepreneurs are Inventors, these two pillars of Innovation (Inventing + Entrepreneurship) are closely aligned and are necessary skills sets in which all students should be immersed in order to create a more innovative, empathetic, and productive workforce of tomorrow.

STEMIE welcomes your feedback. If your organization would like to contribute to this National Invention Curriculum, please contact us at info@stemie.org.

Interested in becoming a STEMIE Affiliate in one of our open territories? Please email us at info@stemie.org.

2018 National InventionConvention

The Henry Ford Museum, May 31 - June 2: We are bringing 500 student inventors and entrepreneurs to Dearborn, Michigan to showcase their innovative ideas!

Each student is a winner of their underlying state-level competition, and their state's representative of thousands of kids who each year learn core invention and entrepreneurship skills in their K-12 schools.